Reuben - You're welcome, but it wasn't much of an effort - I filled out a form on Adobe's Web site and replied to one email message!
- Ed On Mar 24, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Reuben K. Caron wrote: > Ed, > > Great news. Thanks for letting us know and thank you for doing the legwork to > get that accomplished. > > Reuben > > On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:59 AM, Ed McNierney wrote: > >> Folks - >> >> OLPC already has a license from Adobe to redistribute Adobe Flash. We can >> provide that to any deployment that requests it; if a deployment decides >> they need it, we don't need to force them to install it themselves. >> >> However, Adobe pointed out that since OLPC's Linux distro (a Fedora Remix) >> is not a supported platform, they're not interested in bug reports unless >> they are reproduced on stock Fedora and reported as Fedora bugs. Having >> spoken to Adobe about this, I found absolutely no evidence that anyone >> there's eager to do anything specific for OLPC XO laptops. >> >> I also made no effort to sell them on the idea; I just wanted to be sure >> that if a deployment decided on their own that they needed to provide the >> Adobe Flash player, OLPC wasn't unreasonably making it harder than necessary >> for them. >> >> - Ed >> >> On Mar 24, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Reuben K. Caron wrote: >> >>> >>> On Mar 24, 2010, at 7:52 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Reuben K. Caron >>>> <reu...@laptop.org> wrote: >>>>> IMHO, OLPC would be able to provide deployments with the option of >>>>> including >>>>> Adobe Flash, while continuing to include Gnash as default >>>> >>>> There are some aspects that are outside of OLPC control >>>> >>>> - We need RPMs from Adobe -- in the case if AIR, they are not >>>> available. Carlos and anyone else interested _must chase Adobe_, not >>>> OLPC. >>> >>> Yes and no. Anyone technically capable to rebuild our build system, as >>> you mention below, will be able to easily script the installation of >>> AIR. >>> >>>> - Licensing issues need to be sorted out. Carlos and anyone >>>> interested _must chase Adobe_, not OLPC. >>> >>> No again, OLPC should have done the legwork so deployments don't have >>> to jump through the hurdles of obtaining licensing from Adobe. >>> >>>> >>>> - If Adobe cares about running well on XOs, Adobe should ask for >>>> laptops through the contributors programme (like everyone else!). >>>> Carlos any anyone interested must chase Adobe on that. >>> >>> I'll work with Carlos on this. >>> >>>> With those 2 sorted out, it's damned trivial to add it to an 8.2.x >>>> build (using my latest patches to install arbitrary rpms), and thanks >>>> to the more flexible build system for f11 builds it's trivial to add >>>> it to an XO-1.5 image. >>>> >>>> There is noone at OLPC blocking this. Go folks, go lobby Adobe. >>> >>> Agreed. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Devel mailing list >>> Devel@lists.laptop.org >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel